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There’s just something about that first day of school that tugs at the heartstrings.
Maybe it’s the kindergartners who give their parents one final tight hug.
Maybe it’s all the “first-day-of-school” pictures that knock politics and all the other bullcrap off of social media for a day.
Maybe it’s...

The New Hampton volleyball team may not have been in mid-season form Tuesday night when the Chickasaws opened the 2017 volleyball season with a sweep of Nashua-Plainfield. But boy oh boy, the Chickasaws showed the potential they have as they rolled to 25-13, 25-18, 25-18 victory over the...

One of the things Jo Myrsaides liked about the sixth annual Al Baxter Memorial Turkey Shoot last year was bidding on the shooters in the auction. Myrsaides’ late husband, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources conservation officer, would have approved of the shooter she picked to bid on, New...

Josh Fenske visited the Southern Illinois University last month and came away impressed. “I liked the campus. It’s beautiful. I liked the coaches and I felt like it was a good place for me,” he said. “The coaching staff was a key part. ... They have guys who know football and you can look up...

The New Hampton football team will head to Decorah tonight [Friday] to finally play someone other themselves. The Chickasaws and Vikings, for a second straight year, will scrimmage against each other, beginning at 7 p.m. “It’s a good thing for us,” New Hampton coach Scott Frerichs said. “...

Cole McDonald will be the first to admit that he’s been presented some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities because he’s a member of the University of Iowa baseball team. He got a chance to travel to the Dominican Republic last November. He was on a team that won its first-ever Big Ten...

Michael Millage found the right fit, and now he can just focus on his senior year at New Hampton High School.
The two-time state champion committed to wrestling at the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday morning.
“To me, it was just the right place with the right coaches,” said Millage, the...

Maybe — no, scratch maybe and say absolutely — what New Hampton baseball coach Cory McDonald will miss the most about his seniors is their team-first attitude.
He knows, for example, that the two seniors that were named all-state by the Iowa Newspaper Association earlier this week would trade the...

All of the Turkey Valley girls deserved to be named to the Upper Iowa Conference honor squads just for sticking with the program this year, but that’s not the way these things work. So at the conclusion of a disappointing season, Sadie Nymeyer and Kim Fischer were the only ones listed as they...

Even though Cody Hackman played catcher about as much as he was in centerfield, the Turkey Valley senior was named an Upper Iowa Conference first team outfielder for the 2017 season. He was the only Trojan to land on the first team, but Evan Busta, Wyatt Blazek and Cale Reicks were listed as...